FP RINGS™ · FLUENCY POINTS
Four rings.
Every dimension
of fluency.
Most apps collapse all of language into one number. Voicely measures four distinct competencies — each trainable, each CEFR-anchored, each cross-trained by HEXI™.
THE METAPHOR
Language fitness is not a level. It's a practice.
A runner has no "running score."
They have VO2 max, pace, and endurance. Each trains differently. Language is the same.
Four competencies. Not one level.
Pronunciation, Comprehension, Production, and Retention are distinct cognitive skills. Training one doesn't develop the others.
Collapse is why you plateau.
Collapsing four skills into one score hides which dimension is the bottleneck. You can't train what you can't see.
THE FOUR RINGS
Each ring. Its own science.
FLUENCY POINTS™
Points that mean something.
Every XP system in every language app is arbitrary — a number that goes up when you show up. Fluency Points™ map directly to real-world conversational milestones.
XP
Goes up when you open the app. Doesn't measure fluency.
Generic levels (B1, B2)
Collapse four skills into one label. Tell you where you are, not why.
Fluency Points™
Ring-specific, CEFR-anchored, cross-trained by HEXI™. Goes up when you actually improve.
HOW FP ARE EARNED
Ring 1 — Pronunciation
Azure Speech phoneme score × ring weight × session difficulty multiplier
Ring 2 — Comprehension
Recall accuracy × response latency × dialect complexity
Ring 3 — Production
Complexity + Accuracy + Fluency composite (Skehan CAF framework)
Ring 4 — Retention
Recall rate × days since last review × forgetting curve coefficient
THE COMPOUND
HEXI never lets your weakest ring go unaddressed.
Every session, HEXI calculates the gap between your rings and routes training to close it. No manual planning. No blind spots.
Phonemes you can't hear, you can't produce. Comprehension gaps become pronunciation targets.
Production failures surface comprehension gaps. What you can't say reveals what you don't hear.
Retained vocabulary becomes production material. Anchor™ data feeds Compose™ targets.
Pronunciation clarity aids memory encoding. Words you say correctly are remembered longer.
CEFR ANCHORING
Every ring maps to the standard.
FP thresholds are calibrated against the CEFR Companion Volume (2020). Reaching a level means all four rings meet their threshold simultaneously — not a module completed.
RESEARCH BASIS
The science behind the rings.
DeKeyser (2007)
Skill Acquisition Theory
Fluency comes from proceduralization — thousands of practice reps in context. FP tracks that, not knowledge accumulation.
Nation (2001)
Vocabulary Knowledge
Receptive and productive vocabulary develop at different rates. That's why Ring 2 and Ring 3 score separately.
Anderson ACT-R (1983)
Cognitive Skill Acquisition
Skill acquisition follows a power law. FP Rings surface plateau-breaking interventions at exactly the right moment.
See your rings.
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